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June is Supreme Court season, and we should be very worried. All the big case decisions come at the end of June when the term ends and the justices get three month off and we have to live with what they’ve done. So far, we’ve gotten the ridiculous bump stock decision. You’ll recall the concert

I found it odd that former colleague and friend Rob Feldman didn’t respond to an invitation to lunch. We had started having occasional lunches with our friend Tom Kranz. We all worked together at WCAU-TV back in the eighties. Tom had reconnected with Rob. I hadn’t seen Rob in forty years. After no response for

They have been called “the Golden Years”. They even made a successful TV show about them. A new version is coming back by the way. Let’s talk about the seventies. They come after the sixties when many of us are finishing up our careers and looking forward to retirement, travel, grandkids, no money worries, if

One of the most important and consequential trials in American history is now under way in New York City. A former president is on trial for making payments to a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair and then falsifying business records to cover it up. The general pubic will not be allowed

Will it ever stop? The pounding rain across the country is holding us all hostage. The rain is bad enough, but there are parts of the middle of the country being destroyed by tornadoes. People’s homes gone in an instant and changing their lives forever. As I write this, Tornado Watches were issued for parts

Giving up is something you never want to do in sports and most anything in life you’ve worked hard to achieve. College basketball is in the middle of the first weekend of March Madness. With two more weekends to go, millions will be watching and betting on their school if they managed to get into

The first book ban in America is believed to be in 1637 in Quincey, Massachusetts. No surprise, the intolerant Puritans didn’t like the book. “New English Canaan” was a three volume work by Thomas Morton. It was about the history, beliefs and practices of Native Americans and the poor treatment they suffered at the hands

Are you ready? We are all getting an extra day this year. There is a long history. Some of it is true, some of it created out of the mist of history. No less an authority than The Farmer’s Almanac says a leap year is evenly divisible by four and century years that are divisible

It’s happened in schools, in churches, in malls, in supermarkets, in nightclubs, in movie theaters and, yes parades. It happened again yesterday. A million people turned out for the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl Parade. It was a chance to show community pride. Get a closer look at your sports heroes. The Super Bowl is

We’ve done it for a few years. We take a trip to Florida to get out of the cold, damp, and mostly miserable weather in the northeast for a few weeks in January and February. The hope is we’ll enjoy warm, sunny weather to sit on the beach or by the pool, or play golf.